Travel Blogs from Chachapoyas, Peru

... its far less touristy, there is a better chance of seeing pink dolphins and its cheaper and far more sensible me thinks.
From Chachapoyas we went on an action packed 2 day tour taking in
* Kuelap, a spectacular Pre-Inca walled fortress and city, ...

... – no waiting and cheaper! After getting a colectivo from Pedro Ruiz where the bus dropped us we finally arrived into Chachapoyas 12 hours after arriving in Yurimaguas. We were well and truly away from the amazon (despite being in the ...

STEVE SAYS...
I haven´t been able to watch hockey for the past 2 months. Usually this would be difficult for me, but since the Bruins once again missed the playoffs, I´m just fine with it. However, I´m still in shock that Dave Lewis got a vote of ...

... Republic of the Congo
Gocta, the fifth highest in the world at 771 m (2533 ft), located in the province Chachapoyas, Peru - DONE!
Yosemite Falls, arguably the tallest in North America, located in Yosemite National Park, United States - DONE!
Niagara ...

Arrived in the dark at about 5am and checked into the Hostal Orchidaes on Calle Ayachucho which is good and 35 Soles inc breakfast for a huge room! Had a sleep before wandering around this small town which is very white with dark wooden balconies and ...

It was finally time to view my first ruin and I was pretty excited about it.
Chachapoyas, or Chacha as it is known by locals, is a gorgeous mountain town of about 4,000 people. It is a university town so there are lots of young people around, and the ...

... we take while in the Andes. Let's just say that mountain roads at night are not conducive to a good night's sleep.
Chachapoyas is a lively little mountain town, and most importantly for us, gateway to the seldom visited mountain fortress of ...

... nice hostel to stay at. The hostel we choose was amazing, based right on the plaza in a beautiful setting. Chachapoyas is a beautiful town, really quaint and freindly, we expect that it will grow hugely in popularity in the near future. ...

Chachapoyas. Known locally as 'Chacha' (this makes me smile), its a small town in the mountains of northern Peru. Its simply surrounded by antiquity - there are dozens of pre-Inca sites, many of which have yet to really be uncovered. The mountains ...

... was on someone else's travel blog, the border crossing is not even mentioned in the guidebooks!
We set off from Chachapoyas at 4.30am to get the first collectivo (a Peruvian clapped out taxi where the squeeze as many people in as possible, ...

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We had a small fracour about if we would stay into the tiny Tingo or make our way to the confortable civilisation of Chachapoyas, after which we found of Colectivo Taxi (or shared taxi) to Chachapoyas, driven by Peru´s answer to Colin Mcrae.
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The trek of a thousand blisters
Ok, so I missed a day but all that happened was we kicked around Chachapoyas, went to the market, ate strange exotic fruits and booked a trek into the jungle.
One of us almost bought a machete, no prizes ...

... set off in for a 3-day journey through the South of Ecuador and over the border to Peru!
Our first destination in Peru was Chachapoyas, where we are right now: the base for visiting Peru's wildest and most remote archaeological sites - there are few ...

... ; Roads have been blockaded and people have been marching in the streets. In the city of Bagua (not far from Chachapoyas), there was a major clash between the protestors and the police and over 20 police were reported killed, and rumors abound ...

... fortress was very impressive perched on top of a mountain with the clouds coming down on top of it. It was built by the Chachapoyas people around 800AD as a special ceremonial fortress. In some of the walls you could see bones as people were buried, a bit ...

I'd heard from reliable sources that Chachapoyas was worth a trip, and that I could then access the Ecuadorian border from there instead of travelling back to the coast, so off I went on ANOTHER overnight bus along winding roads which took 9 hours. What a ...

... getting to Cuzco on time. But about ten minutes after turning for Tarapoto,we got a call from our travel guy in Chachapoyas telling us the natives had also blockaded the only road to Tarapoto...
Now,there aren´t many roads out of the Andes ...

... town, Leymebamba is located in the Utucamba river valley at around 6,000 ft. The modern inhabitants are descendents from the Chachapoyas, contempories of the Incas who were later conquered. Many of their arquectural ruins are similar to the Incas, and ...

... trying to talk us onto a ride that has both space and is willing to take us back. After finally having scored a ride back to Chachapoyas, we take another colectivo to connect to a night bus to the coast. No problems to catch sleep on the bus that night. ...

Kuelap was one of the main sites I wanted to visit in Peru and today...I'm going! We booked a tour with a company that was recommended by someone in Iquitos. We left at 8:30 and it would be a 3 hour drive. I think it's only about 60 Km ...

... two other tourists today during the hours we were there.
We said good-bye to our guide,Jose,tonight while sharing dinner and a beer with he and Alcides at a local cantina. We leave Chachapoyas, a very pleasant Andean town,in the morning for the ...

... a nice market. It is also the center of many touristic sites. Everything around is older than the Incas, they are coming from the Chachapoyas century. I stayed in two hostels, the first one was to rest after a night bus. He is indicated in all the ...

... a smile plastered on my face, in one of the coldest showers i have ever taken. it was everyhting i hoped for and more Chachapoyas and the region that surrouds it is truely amazing and it is off the beaten path, but every bit worth the extra ...

... to construct Kuelap than for the Great Pyramid in Egypt or so we were told. The Incas eventually came and conquered the Chachapoyas people at Kuelap by starving them out, before the Chachapoyas in turn helped the Spanish defeat the Incas. It is thought ...

The others left for the coast but I wanted to stick around and visit Gocta - the third or twelfth highest waterfall in the world depending on who you believe. I went with a group tour but was so excited at the prospect of seeing the waterfall, I ...